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Trump, RNC Completely CRUSH Democrats In Second Quarter Fundraising

President Donald Trump and the Republican National Committee absolutely crushed the president’s prospective Democratic opponents in second quarter fundraising, according to internal reports from both entities.

Late last week, candidates for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination began announcing their second quarter fundraising hauls, and for the most part, they seemed impressive.

South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg — still a surprise contender for the nomination — took in more than $24 million in March, April, and May, tripling his first quarter haul of around $7 million. Former Vice President Joe Biden hasn’t released official numbers yet, but his take is believed to also be in the tens of millions, earned mostly through the high-dollar fundraisers he’s been attending instead of being on the campaign trail.

But late Tuesday, Trump’s campaign announced that the sitting president raised approximately $54 million for his re-election campaign during the second quarter — a number nearly matched by the Republican National Committee, which announced in a companion press release that it has taken in around $51 million.

That means the president has around $105 million in his war chest going into the second half of 2019 — far more than any of his Democratic contenders, and more than enough to demonstrate a solid base of support heading into the fall.

Better still, it appears the president has raked in most of his cash from small-money donors. The campaign lists 725,000 individual donations with an average contribution of $4.

It’s also important to note that the president’s fundraising efforts are just beginning; Trump has yet to engage in any serious fundraising strategy or make overt efforts to solicit major donations from high-money donors. In fact, the president’s official re-election campaign only kicked off late last month, so while the campaign has been collecting donations since Trump officially won his first term, real fundraising is only just starting in earnest.

All accounts seem to show the president will need everything he can get. So far, Trump is running neck-and-neck with the generic Democrat in key swing states like Wisconsin and Florida, and the Democratic Party is likely to learn from Hillary Clinton’s 2016 mistakes, even if Hillary Clinton has not. It’s unlikely any candidate will willfully ignore rust-belt swing states this time around, or cede Florida to the RNC.

But that said, the Democrats are still at a fundraising disadvantage, both individually and as a group.

A handful of the 20-something contenders for the Democratic nomination have been cagey about their second quarter takings. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders matched his first quarter, raising around $18 million, but that’s not nearly enough to keep him in a highly competitive race. Former Texas Senate candidate Beto O’Rourke told reporters over the weekend that he couldn’t remember how much his campaign had brought in during the second quarter — a sure sign that the one-time-wunderkind raised less than expected and may be on the verge of dropping out over lack of finances.

As a whole, the party is currently lagging behind, as well. Without a candidate or limited slate of candidates to rally behind, the Democratic National Committee won’t be able to effectively raise money for its own war chest — a big problem, especially considering that the DNC has had difficulty raising any money since losing to Trump in 2016. There’s no opportunity to set an agenda or target donors until the field is down from 20-plus candidates to five or six frontrunners.

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Before Nike’s Done Trashing the Betsy Ross Flag, They Need to See This Pic of Obama’s Inauguration

Apparently, one of the earliest iterations of the American flag is racist. Who would have thought? If you’re late to the party and haven’t turned on the TV or been on the internet in the last 48 hours, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday that former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick managed to get Nike’s special Fourth…

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Leftists Angry After Ruth Bader Ginsburg Praises Fellow Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh (VIDEO)


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Liberal Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Wednesday praised fellow justice Brett Kavanaugh for appointing an all female staff.

Ginsburg, a Clinton appointee is the second woman in US history to be added to the Supreme Court.

As expected, the left was not happy about Ginsburg’s praise of Kavanaugh, a man who was unfairly smeared by the lying left during his confirmation hearings.

“There is a very important first on the Supreme Court this term and it’s thanks to our new justice, Justice Kavanaugh whose entire staff are all women. All of his law clerks are women,” Ginsburg said.

“And with his four women as law clerks, it’s the first time in the history of the United States that there have been more women clerking at the court than men,” she said.

Of course there was a delayed applause by the liberals there who were in utter shock over Ginsburg’s praise of Kavanaugh.

WATCH:

Leftists continued to smear Kavanaugh and accused him of ‘hiring a harem’ because he’s a pervert.

Dianne Feinstein, Christine Blasey Ford and the lying media is responsible for these smears against Kavanaugh, a man who was never convicted of a crime, but still considered guilty in the public court of opinion over baseless accusations that he sexually assaulted Christine Blasey Ford at a decades-old high school party.

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Black Reporter Blows Liberals’ Minds, Sets Record Straight on Police Shootings & Black Suspects

In St. Louis, Missouri, Bonette Meeks was recently arrested for killing a police officer. Circumstances of the arrest went viral. Elliott Davis recounted the arrest Tuesday in a Facebook post that has more than 8,000 shares in roughly 24 hours. Davis, an African American investigative reporter for KTVI from St. Louis, took the opportunity to…

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Court may rule that you can call non-meat meat

What’s the harm, many of you said. So people are creating fake meat out of genetically modified enzymes from soy roots. And they’re supposedly making it juicy and creating it to taste almost like actual meat. Why panic? Nobody is making us eat it, right?

Don’t say I didn’t warn you. The vegans are on the march and they’re coming for our cows. And now they’ve gone to court and asked a judge to go along with their evil plans. In a recently filed suit out of Chicago, the plaintiffs are asking to have a Mississippi law struck down. The measure bans companies from calling their Frankenstein products “meat” and the plaintiffs are objecting that this is a violation of their freedom of speech. (CBS Chicago)

A federal lawsuit filed by a Chicago vegan food maker says Mississippi is violating free-speech rights by banning makers of plant-based foods from using terms such as “meatless meatballs” and “vegan bacon.”

The lawsuit was filed Monday by the Plant Based Foods Association and Chicago-based Upton’s Naturals Co., which makes vegan products and sells them in many states, including Mississippi.

It was filed the same day Mississippi enacted a new law that bans plant-based products from being labeled as meat.

Here’s one of the cunning plant-peddlers now, complaining about the law.

You see where this is going, right? If they can pull off some sort of bogus free speech argument, pretty soon they’ll be able to start pawning off their creations on an unknowing public and just start calling the Impossible Burgers meat. Or even beef. Meanwhile, all the cows will be loaded up and taken to no-kill shelters or something.

Not everyone is giving up without a fight, however. Louisiana just passed a new law demanding honesty in food labeling and it goes into effect next year.

In Louisiana, Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards has signed a law to keep veggie products from being called meat, non-rice products from being described as rice and sugar alternatives from being marketed as sugar. It becomes law in October 2020.

Thanks to Governor Edwards for trying to hold the line. And just keep in mind what some of these people are out there selling. Impossible Foods uses “heme” to make their monstrous creations look like the real deal. And what is “heme,” you ask? They provide an answer.

We started by using the heme-containing protein from the roots of soy plants. It’s called soy leghemoglobin. We took the DNA from soy plants and inserted it into a genetically engineered yeast. And we ferment this yeast—very similar to the way Belgian beer is made. But instead of producing alcohol, our yeast multiply and produce a lot of heme.

Makes your mouth water just reading the words, doesn’t it?

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Trump Unloads On Democrats Over Border Crisis

President Donald Trump slammed Democrats on Wednesday for not helping to address the crux of the problem with the crisis on the southern border and suggested that Democratic lawmakers were lying about what they saw during their visit to a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) facility this week.

“Our Border Patrol people are not hospital workers, doctors or nurses. The Democrats bad Immigration Laws, which could be easily fixed, are the problem. Great job by Border Patrol, above and beyond,” Trump tweeted. “Many of these illegals aliens are living far better now than where they came from, and in far safer conditions. No matter how good things actually look, even if perfect, the Democrat visitors will act shocked & aghast at how terrible things are. Just Pols. If they really want to fix them, change the Immigration Laws and Loopholes. So easy to do!”

Trump added: “Now, if you really want to fix the Crisis at the Southern Border, both humanitarian and otherwise, tell migrants not to come into our country unless they are willing to do so legally, and hopefully through a system based on Merit. This way we have no problems at all!”

Trump’s comments come after socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) made salacious claims, without evidence, that CBP officials told detained women to drink from the toilet if they were thirsty while Ocasio-Cortez was present.

Ocasio-Cortez made numerous other salacious claims which were widely dismissed as being false and dishonest.

During a Fox News interview on Tuesday, Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) said that Ocasio-Cortez’s recent claims show that she is “getting bolder with her lies.”

“People like AOC are operating off of a false premise and deliberately designed to misinform the American people for her own political ends,” Crenshaw said. “Remember, first there was no crisis at all. Then it was a manufactured crisis. Then it was a crisis completely created by Trump. Then there were concentration camps. Then people are Nazis.”

“Now she is saying that Border Patrol agents harassed her and forced migrants to drink out of toilets? This is insanity. This is not true,” Crenshaw continued. “There is no one else corroborating these kinds of reports and yet she is using it to try and make her case that we shouldn’t have any enforcement and that we should have open borders. This is really dishonest behavior from a member of Congress and I honestly can’t believe it.”

“Let’s not forget, they fought us tooth and nail against that $4.5 million of humanitarian aid that the president needed, that DHS needed, that HHS needed, in order to better conditions at these facilities,” Crenshaw continued. “They fought us for months on this. They said there was no crisis. We asked for a vote in the House 17 times. They refused to do it. … AOC talks about these things, I don’t see them offering up any space in their own homes. They are not offering a better solution. They are not saying, ‘why don’t we put them all up at a hotel.'”

“What they really want is no enforcement, this is the crux of it. They don’t talk about what the actual problem is which is tens of thousands of people coming across and overwhelming our system,” Crenshaw concluded. “And then they have to answer the question, should we have a system at all? And they say no. Well what is the point of even having a border? Why even have custom agents at airports if we are not going to enforce any kind of management over who comes in and out of our country? They don’t want to answer these tough questions because in the end they want open borders.”

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Fareed Zakaria: Our asylum laws are ‘vague, lax, and being gamed’

Sunday, Fareed Zakaria did a segment about the crisis at the border in which he stated the facts that few reporters seem interested in talking about. Speaking of Trump, Zakaria said, “He is right that the United States faces a crisis with its asylum system.”

Zakaria went on to offer a warning to Democrats. Highlighting the chaos at the border might help energize left-wing voters as a way to further demonize the president, but it also suggests that something more drastic needs to be done to resolve the problem and that will wind up playing into Trump’s hands in 2020. He’s right. The perfect scenario for Democrats going into 2020 is a calm border that robs Trump of one of his favorite issues. On the other hand, an ideal scenario for Trump is mass immigration that is overwhelming our system. Right now, that’s what we’ve got.

What’s good about this clip is that Zakaria isn’t just gaming out political scenarios. He also offers an explanation for why this is happening. That explanation will be very familiar to regular Hot Air readers but I wonder if this isn’t the first time some CNN viewers have heard it.

“Since 2014, the flow of asylum seekers into the United States has skyrocketed,’ Zakaria said. He continued, “Last year, immigration courts received 162,000 asylum claims, a 240 percent increase from 2014. The result is a staggering backlog with more than 300,000 immigration cases pending and the average immigration case has been pending for more than 700 days.

“It’s also clear that the rules surrounding asylum are vague, lax, and being gamed. The initial step for many asylum seekers is to convince officers that they have a credible fear of persecution in their home countries and about 75 percent meet that criteria. Some applicants for asylum have suspiciously similar stories using identical phrases. Many simply use the system to enter the U.S. and then melt into the shadows or gain a work permit while their application is pending.

“Asylum is meant to be granted to a very small number of people in extreme circumstances, not as a substitute for the process of immigration itself. Yet the two have gotten mixed up.”

Zakaria notes that asylum laws were created by the UN after Jews were turned away by other countries when they tried to flee Nazi Germany. But over the years the standard for asylum has gotten broader. It’s not only open to people fleeing genocide but to anyone who can claim they were threatened by a gang or that they are a victim of domestic violence. Granted both of those things are real and terrible problems but we have those same problems here.

And then Zakaria gets to the real problem with all of this. As things now stand, “Hundreds of millions of people around the world who live in poor, unstable regions where threats of violence abound could easily apply for asylum. Do they all have the legal right to enter the U.S. through a back door, bypassing the normal immigration process?”

Nearly all of the Democrats running for president and most in Congress seem to believe the answer is yes. Some are even calling for decriminalizing border crossing and abolishing ICE, effectively creating open borders, i.e. people might get a ticket when they cross but once they’re in, they’ll never be asked to leave.

Zakaria understands that this is not a tenable situation. “The criteria for asylum need to be rewritten and substantially tightened…People should not be able to use asylum claims to work in America,” he said.

All of this makes perfect sense but these days saying it almost guarantees you’ll be demonized as a racist. Indeed, Zakaria does this to Trump at the beginning of this clip even while admitting he’s right. Still, it’s a hopeful sign that the truth about what is happening has broken out at CNN. Trump administration spokespeople and surrogates should be forced to watch this on a loop until they can quote it verbatim and go on CNN to repeat it over and over until it sinks in with some portion of the anti-Trump viewership.

 

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Toy Story 2 Cuts Fake Blooper Scene in Wake of #MeToo

A new release of the animated hit Toy Story 2 has cut out a fake blooper scene where one of the characters suggestively tells two Barbies he can get them a part in the next sequel.

The original segment is at the 3:35 mark in the video above. "Stinky Pete," voiced by Kelsey Grammer, rubs one of the Barbie’s hands and doesn’t know he’s being filmed as he promises to help their careers.

Fans noticed the scene was edited out in the new 4K version of the movie released earlier this year, CNN reported.

The sensitivity over the scene appears related to the #MeToo movement against sexual harassment, which began in 2017 with revelations of decades of sexual assault and misconduct claims against Hollywood titan Harvey Weinstein.

Yahoo wrote up the story of the edit with the headline, "‘Toy Story 2′ once featured Barbies being sexually harassed. Not anymore."

Its lede: "One of the many amusing aspects of the Toy Story movies are the jokes in the blooper reel at the end, which depicts favorite animated characters, including Woody, Buzz Lightyear and Mr. Potato Head, as actors flubbing various scenes.

The problem is that one of them, a blooper from 1999’s Toy Story 2, isn’t so funny anymore."

Toy Story 4, the latest film in the popular Pixar series, was released last month. Like its three predecessors, it features a humorous fake bloopers scene during the end credits.

John Lasseter, the director of Toy Story 2 and several other Pixar hits, left Disney and Pixar in 2018 amid allegations of sexual harassment. He was one of several prominent figures across media, politics, and business whose behavior went from open secret to scandal in the #MeToo era.

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Delingpole: RIP Christopher Booker, the World’s Greatest Climate Change Sceptic

Christopher Booker, the world’s greatest climate sceptic, has died.

Booker – “Bookers” as I used to call him on our regularly weekly phone chats – would have hated being called the ‘greatest’ but he was, for a number of reasons.

Firstly, he wrote the definitive book on the climate change scam: The Great Global Warming Disaster: Is the Obsession with ‘Climate Change’ Turning Out to be the Most Costly Blunder in History?

Secondly, he was one of very, very few journalists capable of getting climate sceptical arguments prominent coverage in the mainstream media – notably in the hugely influential and widely read Daily Mail and also in his weekly Sunday Telegraph column.

Thirdly, he was a figure of such journalistic eminence, who did his research so thoroughly, that he made it very hard for his many enemies on the green side of the argument simply to dismiss him as an ignorant crank.

Fourthly, unlike more than a few on the sceptic side of argument, Booker did not attempt to cover his rear or make himself seem more reasonable and moderate by billing himself as a ‘lukewarmer’. Booker told it as he saw it and for many years was in no doubt whatsoever that ‘climate change’ was the most expensive, pointless and dishonest scam in the history of the world.

What made Booker so special, apart from the old-fashioned thoroughness and attention to detail he brought to all his investigations, was that he was a man of extraordinary intelligence, experience and breadth of insight.

During his long, varied career he had been the founding editor of Private Eye (and, by extension, a key player in London’s Sixties Satire boom), jazz critic for the Spectator, a campaigner against tower blocks and brutalist modern architecture, a correspondent at the Moscow Olympics and a crusader against the European Union (his book The Great Deception – co-written with Richard North is the definitive work on the subject).

He also wrote an analysis of literature and storytelling tropes through the ages – The Seven Basic Plots – so brilliant that it is now taught at universities and on screenwriting courses as a kind of key to all mythologies which demonstrates not only how stories have been constructed and told over the centuries but also why they play such an important role in our culture.

Booker, in other words, was considerably more formidable an intellect with a great deal more hinterland and breadth of understanding than most of the tragic little pigmies who made it their business to mock his journalistic columns and to wear him down with vexatious complaints to the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO) (formerly the Press Complaints Commission).

These complaints – often made by people with vested interests in the global warming scam, either as paid shills like Bob Ward of the Grantham Institute, or as second-rate scientists defending their sinecures – would take up a good deal of Booker’s unpaid time. Almost invariably at the end he won because the facts were on his side and because he had prepared his case thoroughly. But by that stage the damage had been done: the point of these complaints was and is to wear climate sceptics down and to make them suffer financially, as well as to make newspaper editors more wary of publishing their work. The process is the punishment.

Booker, being a philosophical and good natured soul, took most of these irritations in his stride. But in our final conversations he did admit to finding it extraordinary – as I do – that almost a decade after Climategate (the tenth anniversary falls in November) we are still no closer to derailing the $1.5 trillion (plus) per annum global climate change gravy train.

On the contrary, the more clearly the evidence shows that catastrophic man-made climate change is a chimaera, the more shrilly and noisily the vast and powerful climate alarmism industry screams that the sky is falling and that we’re all doomed (unless we spend still trillions more on this non-existent problem…).

Though Booker agreed that this is shocking he did not find it inexplicable. That’s because, as an historian, he recognised that across the ages madness has run in cycles, and that every stupid idea – from the Taiping rebellion to Nazism to Maoism – has its day during which the warnings of the sane are ignored. The great global warming scam is just another example of this phenomenon.

When he died, Booker was working on a book on this subject. The early draft was a paper he wrote for the Global Warming Policy Foundation on the subject of groupthink.

Groupthink was a term coined in the Sixties by a Yale psychology professor Irving Janis. Booker brought it up to date by taking in the climate change scare.

He wrote:

What Janis did was to define scientifically just how what he called groupthink operates, according to three basic rules. And what my paper tries to show is the astonishing degree to which they explain so much that many have long found puzzling about the global warming story.

Janis’s first rule is that a group of people come to share a particular way of looking at the world which may seem hugely important to them but which turns out not to have been based on looking properly at all the evidence. It is therefore just a shared, untested belief.

Rule two is that, because they have shut their minds to any evidence which might contradict their belief, they like to insist that it is supported by a “consensus”. The one thing those caught up in groupthink cannot tolerate is that anyone should question it.

This leads on to the third rule, which is that they cannot properly debate the matter with those who disagree with their belief. Anyone holding a contrary view must simply be ignored, ridiculed and dismissed as not worth listening to.

His full paper is well worth a read – as is the one he wrote demonstrating the key role of the BBC in promoting the climate scare.

Booker was like my honorary dad. I’ll miss him greatly. Not that I really quite believe that he’s no longer with us. Years from now, when the phone rings in the evening in the middle of some TV programme I’m watching, I’ll still pick it up half expecting to hear a voice booming at me with the enthusiasm of a man about to launch into another hour long conversation ranging from the European Union to climate change to Peter Cook to his schooldays at Shrewsbury: “Dellers!…”

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